Departmental Manpower

Thomas Docherty: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) Army personnel, (b) Ministry of Defence Police, (c) civil servants working for his Department and (d) civilian staff of his Department were employed at (i) Dreghorn, (ii) Redford and (iii) Craigiehall barracks in the latest period for which figures are available.

Andrew Robathan: holding answer 14 September 2011
	The figures requested are shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Army MOD Police MOD Civilians 
			 Craigiehall 180 1 158 
			 Dreghorn 592 0 14 
			 Redford 745 0 £0 
		
	
	The Ministry of Defence (MOD) Police and MOD civilian figures represent the actual numbers of personnel in post at 31 August 2011.
	The Army figures have been taken from the joint personnel administration system and represent the number of Army personnel employed at the locations as at 13 September 2011.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Jim Murphy: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what savings to the public purse he expects to achieve from the Submarine Enterprise Performance Programme in respect of (a) Resource DEL, (b) Capital DEL and (c) AME during the comprehensive spending review period.

Peter Luff: The strategic defence and security review stated that the Submarine Enterprise Performance programme was expected to deliver savings of at least £900 million over the next 10 years. These savings, which are subject to further work, are expected to start to accrue towards the end of the comprehensive spending review period, and are all expected to be in respect of Capital DEL.

Navy

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the Order of Battle is of the fleet.

Peter Luff: As at 7 September 2011, the Order of Battle for the fleet was as follows:
	
		
			  Number 
			 Landing Platform Helicopter (1)2 
			 Landing Platform Dock 2 
			 T45 3 
			 T42 4 
			 T23 13 
			 Hunt Class MCV 8 
			 Sandown Class MCV 7 
			 River Class Offshore Patrol Vessels 3 
			 Helicopter Offshore Patrol Vessels 1 
			 P2000 Patrol Boats 18 
			 Ocean Survey Vessels 1 
			 Coastal Survey Vessels 3 
			 Antarctic Patrol Ship 1 
			 Ships Submersible Ballistic Nuclear 4 
			 Ship Submersible Nuclear 7 
			 Assault Helicopters—Sea King Mk4 3 Sqns 
			 Search and Rescue—Sea King Mk5 2 Sqns 
			 Airbourne Surveillance and Control—Sea King Mk7 3 Sqns 
			   
			 Anti Submarine and Anti Surface:  
			 Merlin Mk1 Lynx 4 Sqns 
			 Mk3 and Mk8 3 Sqns 
			   
			 Battlefield Helicopters—Lynx Mk9 1 Sqn 
			 Elementary Flying 3 Sqns 
			 Beechcraft King Air 350ER Avenger 1 Sqn 
			 (1) HMS Illustrious is now operating in the Landing Platform Helicopter role, as well as HMS Ocean. 
		
	
	For the Royal Fleet Auxiliary:
	
		
			  Number 
			 Fleet Tankers 2 
			 Support Tankers 1 
			 Small Fleet Tankers 2 
			 Fleet Replenishment Ships 3 
			 Landing Ship Dock 3 
			 Aviation Training Ship 1 
			 Forward Repair Ship 1